Graduate Students
Laura Fernanda Jimenez Parra
Email: ljimene1@umd.edu
Interests: applied research; social and emotional development of young Latino children; design and evaluation of programs that enhance the well-being of young children
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Tanya Tavassolie, Ph.D.
Email: ttavasso@umd.edu
Interests: effects of elementary school test-based promotion policies on low-income ethnically and linguistically diverse populations; relation of academic and behavioral skills in early childhood to later achievement
Role: leads Educare evaluation
Cassandra Simons Gerson, Ph.D.
Email: csimons1@umd.edu
Interests: evaluation of early childhood preventive interventions; self-regulation and executive functioning; school readiness; parenting; program evaluation
Role: leads QIN evaluation
Jacquelyn T Gross, Ph.D.
Email: jgross@umd.edu
Interests: applied developmental research; evaluation of childhood education and intervention programs; parent-child relationships; attachment; early social and emotional development; school readiness; emotion regulation; emotion expression
Role: leads Pre-K Expansion evaluation
Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistants
Rebecca Watkins
Zainab Lawal
Mauricio Dominguez
Shivani Wali Raina
Cierra Vines
Anyela Maria Jacome-Ceron